brummiephil
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which is best??
Tinned always has more aroma and of the tinned variety I find Lidl "Freshona" is the best I have tried, for grain size and firmness, and at 99p for a pack of 3 you can't go wrong. However I don't have much faith in corn as a bait and will change after 5 minutes if I haven't had a bite.
Come round to the farm pond. If I haven't had a bite on corn in 5 seconds its because they've already nicked it off the hook!
Seriously, I have caught more fish on corn in the last 18 months than all other baits put together. That includes virtually all the double figure carp.
Tinned always has more aroma and of the tinned variety I find Lidl "Freshona" is the best I have tried, for grain size and firmness, and at 99p for a pack of 3 you can't go wrong. However I don't have much faith in corn as a bait and will change after 5 minutes if I haven't had a bite.
ithought it was just me! i dont know what it is but i just have no confidence in it, yet i never leave home without a tin. mind you i was given a tin of strawberry corn by a polish guy i got talking to on the bank, he gets it sent over, and that worked for me. still, i prefer meat or small boilies.
However I don't have much faith in corn as a bait and will change after 5 minutes if I haven't had a bite.
I was once catching for fun on a commercial on half a tin of Scopex corn that a bloke gave me when he was going home. It was a fishing brand that he bought in a Lidl or Aldi theme week and the grains were huge, like maize. Mind you the particular commie I was on was like fish-soup and you could catch on fag-ends,
Sweet corn is actually a specific variety of corn that contains natural sugars and enzymes.
Tinned sweetcorn also contains added salt (brine) as a preservative and can be a very effective hookbait for carp, bream and crucians.
The best quality tinned sweet corn is Jolly Green Giant, its a little expensive but its very firm and stays on the hook, cant say I've ever noticed any variation in the quality compared to other brands so I tend to stick with that.
Frozen bags from Iceland are cheep enough to blitz in the blender, add a bit of sugar/salt/turmeric/black pepper if you wish and add to your feed. (I like to feed them up good and proper, the black pepper increases the nutritional value significantly).
Some of the cheaper varieties of tinned corn tend to fall apart if you pull the hair through with a needle. Its the double overhand tied hair loop knot (surgeons knot) that tends to damage it.
Artificial plastic corn seems to be popular but not for me, it has to be a digestible hookbait.
I know Clive, but it just doesn't seem to work for me! Mind you, I haven't fished many out-and-out carp waters recently so maybe there's the problem? You'd think the bream and skimmers would have it though. Too easy to get bites on caster and pellet to be bothering with corn.
iv often looked at the tins of flavoured/coloured corn in the tackle shops but never tried them. as daft as it sounds, adding yellow food colouring to normal yellow corn is supposed to give it a boost, i tried it and the difference in colour was surprising, really makes it a much brighter yellow.